Best HFY Reddit Stories: No Kill Like Overkill

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[@creakyjoints2024]

How to discourage slavery and other war crimes. A best seller authored by Humanity. 😂

[@Shadowdrag00n]

Now that's a warning speech "Release our people, or we will free them from the ashes of your empire" .

[@skipmage]

"There is no such thing as 'Over Kill' There is only 'Open Fire' and 'Cover me, I'm reloading'." -Schlock Mercenary.

[@Perfectly_round]

Overkill? You mean sufficient firepower?

[@alexanderhamilton4258]

When you don't know the parameters of "Kill", you definitely don't want to undershoot.

[@jonnypena7651]

Only the loser thinks is overkill.

[@Drago_Whooves]

I think the council's next move might be a message to the humans, something along the lines of "we know what the Xalaxians did is bad, we've been trying to get evidence for years, but could you maybe not wipe them out?"

[@daveseidl6278]

you hit the ground you kill everything that has more than two legs. YOU GET ME!!!

[@angelosorio9386]

We get you sir!!

[@Darkinu2]

On one hand karma finally bit these squidlips in the ass. But on the other hand, even taking their warcrimes into account this is xenocide. Honestly I feel bad for the Xalaxians... or at least this one.

[@WintersTheSixth]

Let's be xenophobic....

[@krel7160]

By the sounds of it.. The humans of this story *are* at least focusing on taking the homeworld, leaving any that are not on the path untouched. This means that is certainly a genocide.. But it isn't "to the last soul", it's "to the end of the empire". That implies there's an ending where when the last slave is freed from it's shackles, so too are the surviving members of the race also freed from theirs. Maybe I've read too much 40k if that seems like an acceptable cost in a scifi setting..

[@Goulmy86]

Yes genocide is bad. But considering this; This was first contact for those humans. Slavery is alive in the universe. Got to make them feel like: you touch a human, you die. They were warned and ignored it. Geneva became a checklist.

[@Darkinu2]

All valid points.

[@jaredflynn3750]

Its only a war crime if they have human rights, and only humans have rights. Humanity first!

[@drewgilbertson]

Reminds me of the Expeditionary Force series. The massive alien war humans get tricked into joining has only 2 Rules of War: Don't break habitable planets, and don't wake up robo-cthulu.

[@cubiusblockus3973]

Good series that one... Looked into the Ruins of earth series or wayward galaxy series? both those are pretty good too.

[@billybob4895]

I wanna wake robo-Cthulhu

[@drewgilbertson]

@billybob4895 SPOILERS well eventually humans put a leash on one of them, turn it into Earth's guard dog, and name it Rosco. It even plays tricks like Fetch the Alien Ship.

[@billybob4895]

@@drewgilbertson well now I have to experience it myself cus I call bs

[@drewgilbertson]

@billybob4895 No BS man. Though we did have some help from an ancient alien super ai named Skippy. You'll love him. He and the MC have this whole Abbot and Costello thing going on. It's a great series.

[@evanreynolds5386]

The council is going to take there sweet time

[@blakeverdon4492]

I'd say humanity's response was quite... _proportional..._

[@alwelle3902]

Guess that's one way to avoid "grey goo" out of control nanobots.

[@tno895]

"Hey, you know that two-dozen-odd world streak we first used those nanobot swarms on?" "Of course, the First Purge. What about it?" "So, the fifth world has gone from rocky wasteland to silver wasteland..."

[@cewla3348]

@@tno895 stellaris nanite world

[@quirkyturtle6652]

I think the author needs to up the scale by a large margin but other than that was a really entertaining story

[@Wotan874]

I missed some zeros at the end of the numbers, too.

[@scott644]

One second qualifies as a moment. Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day multiplies out to 86,400 "moments" per day. Consider the bare minimum for hundreds is 150 (rounded up). This multiplies out to 12,960,000 per day. Considering the time involved between attacks, yeah this sounds about right for a low estimate of an average value.

[@waynekettles5480]

Is there more than one part to this story. I loved it.

[@paulqueripel3493]

not yet

[@74wf]

I think leaving it a cliffhanger would be better

[@johnnymellon7414]

"..every moment you delay, hundreds of my people die.." Thats... how low of a population do the Xenos have? That was a quiet and peacefull day in ww1 & 2. When global population was around a 1/4th of present values...

[@Wotan874]

well, depends on what a "moment" is ... if you count in nano seconds those hundreads of dead people üper "moment" pile up to millions in a day

[@johnnymellon7414]

@@Wotan874and if you count in months it's less than what die in a minor city by natural cause... so lets stick to reality and go with several minutes

[@Wotan874]

@@johnnymellon7414 minutes sounds good 🙂

[@t1tanfallpr025]

I remember reading somewhere that there is no such thing as excessive force, only sufficient force and not enough force

[@derekstein6193]

The Fuck Around and Find Out Express coming through!

[@fesco4752]

the nanites assimilate "everthing" and then ignite the atmosphere is odly familiar with teh EXTERMINATUS of the Warhammer franchice

[@ironwolfF1]

It's too early to say if this story will wind up being a one-shot, but the author _will_ need to do some serious back-filling (and scale adjustment) to make this a good series. I'd like to see more than the typical 'humans MAD, humans smash' (even if it's HFY) story...but that's up to the author to sell it.

[@eSpartan0217]

Hi there, im actually the author for No Kill Like Overkill. I dont plan on adding more to this story at the moment as it plays out pretty well as a short story, however that may change if i start feeling a strong passion to continue it. However, i am currently working on a much larger story in the HFY setting, as well as a few more short stories that i have ideas for.

[@ironwolfF1]

@@eSpartan0217 That's cool...frankly it's better to focus on one task at a time; and, to treat every story as a learning exercise to improve your story-telling. 👍

[@brucenorman8904]

Ralts Bloodthorne "First Contact" Maxton1811 "Perfectly Wrong"

[@cubiusblockus3973]

@@eSpartan0217 Hoping for more from this, it feels too open ended to be a one shot. got a great start... perhaps alternating it between humans and galactic council each chapter might give inspiration.

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@jamesha175]

almost every story on the youtube about humans in space revolves around the humans being orders of magnitude better at war than the rest of the aliens combined

[@WE_DONT_LIE]

Hfy HUMANITY FUCK YEAH

[@rulyon7222]

@thefatelectrician would like the “proportional” scale of this story.

[@DasHeino2010]

Nice story! Love to see them come around!

[@scotthinger6397]

Oh well they FAFO'd. To bad so sad.

[@Soundwave119]

Great video, its a pity that there's probably no continuation of this story.

[@martinwyke]

What about slaves of the council's species?

[@Hopalongtom]

They didn't specify the slaves taken, so I like to assume they took as many slaves of any race they could bring. Just that human slaves were the highest priority.

[@Struthio_Camelus]

Well, hello there.

[@chrisdufresne9359]

General Kenobi!

[@phantomwraith1984]

You are a bold one

[@enclaveofficerz3245]

Your move

[@gregwunderlich4253]

I hope that there is more to this story 😊

[@illusiveelk2558]

Me omw to test the new raid exotic on a random dreg in Switzerland:

[@DimitriKurkov]

Can't do the time? Don't do the crime.

[@nweasels]

.... Oh no... that's literally the life eater virus.

[@SirPlocks]

Should have just given back the humans

[@thatjeff7550]

Not sure I like this one. Why TPK an entire planet to the point that it's uninhabitable? That's prime real estate to someone.

[@nadjasunflower1387]

was thinking this as well. like i get the xenocide...but rendering an entire planet unable to support life is....extra...🤔

[@madago4785]

I suppose it can still be an excellent quarry and/or mine.

[@dadudeme]

If you have the capability to disassemble an entire biosphere that fast and methodically, then it is most definitely not out of the question that you can reconstruct said biosphere with some effort.

[@morgankuikka4940]

Sends a message, warning them "we will collect our people from the ashes of your empire" doesnt send a clear enough message unless you follow it up with proof of intent. If it was simply a smash and grab the aliens would still underestimate human capacity for Violence and would not be sufficiently cowed. Now after the first couple planets i would ask if they are willing to listen now though.

[@mr.notseen2409]

Bro, imagine being the alien invaders

[@snake57]

If you find yourself in a fair fight then you have planned poorly.

[@SageofStars]

Do we know if the author ever did a part 2, as this one is screaming for it. This is the end result of so many scifi first contacts, though most prominently Mass Effect, that we never get to see from the Human's winning POV. It is effectively the opposite of the Mimbari War of Babylon 5, with the humans dominating, and they DID make that one request. Mind, it does beg the question, do they HAVE anymore human slaves, if so, then they're idiots. If not, then I'd surrender, and humanity DOES sometimes have mercy in these situations, though given they're continuing onward, it sounds like you still have something they want.

[@demonlordotrt754]

If its not overkill then your not trying

[@amargwari2431]

Series?

[@Agmanfe]

There is no such thing as overkill!